Other Words for Home

by Jasmine Warga

There is an Arabic proverb that says: The offspring of ducks float. It means, all children end up like their parents. I guess I am starting to float.

America, like every other place in the world, is a place where some people sleep and some people other people dream.

I am tired of being the tree in the wind that is always pushed, but never allowed to fall down.

There is an Arabic proverb that says: Her luck splits open rocks. I am still waiting to feel like the force and less like the rocks.

I don’t think you have to forget in order to learn, I say,

I have learned Americans love to say you know and then stop talking. They force you to fill in the hard parts, the things they are not brave enough to say.

There is an Arabic proverb that says: She makes you feel like a loaf of freshly baked bread. It is said about the nicest kindest people. The type of people who help you rise.

Issa would say to me: Too much sunshine makes a desert.